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o. T. WEAVER TOY Filed Jan. 24. 1927 2 snets-sheet 2 v I I 8v WITNESS: ATTORNEY INVENTOR Patented June 28, 1927.

UNITED, STATES PATENT OFFICE.

TOY.

Application filed January 24, 1927. Serial No. 163,182.

My present invention has reference to a motor operated toy, and has for its ob ect .the provision of a figure, representing an officer for directing traflic at crossings, with a go and stop signal, the motor actuating means for causing one arm of the figure to be raised as when traific is to be halted and to be lowered when the vehicles are permitted to make the crossing, the direction signal being located in timed relation with the swinging of the arm of the figure.

A further object is the provision of a toy for this purpose in which a figure has a pivoted arm which is caused to swing to both horizontal and vertical positions, a stop signal which moves in timed relation to the swinging of the arm of the frame and a whistle which is operated simultaneously with the swinging of the arm to a horizontal position, all of such devices being operated by a suitable inexpensive motor.

To the attainment of the above broadly recited objects and many others which will present themselves as the nature of the invention is better understood, the improvement also resides in certain other novel features of construction, combination and oper ative association of parts, one ofv a number of satisfactory embodiments of which is disclosed by the accompanying drawings.

In the drawings Figure 1 is a front elevation of the improved toy.

Figure 2 is a rear elevation.

Figure 3 is a side elevation with parts in section.

Figure 4 is a sectional view on the line 44 of Figure 3.

Figure 5 is a sectional view on the line 55 of Figure 3.

Figure 6 is a perspective view of the contact finger for the motor.

Figure 7 is a perspective view of a yoke to which the contact finger is attached.

On a hollow and preferably rectangular base 1 I mount a figure 2. The figure is shaped to represent a policeman who directs trafiic at a crossing. The figure has a pivotedarm 3 and a fixed. arm 4:, provided with a guide 5, for the rod or staff 6 on whose top there is secured rightangularly disposed plates 7 the aligning plates having stamped thereon the words Go and Stop, respectively.

In the hollow base 1 I secure the frame 7 of a spring influenced motor. The motor is of the usual clock construction, in which'the train of gears is influenced bya spring 8, and one of the end gears has on its shaft a cam wheel 9 that is in the path of contact with a stop lever 10, the said lever having its lower portion pivoted in the base 1 and its outer portion passing through a slot in the top of the base. By swinging the lever into" the path of contact with the cam or like stop element 9 the movement of the train of gears will be halted.

On the wind shaft 11 for the spring there isfixecl a disc 12, and this disc has on its periphery equidistantly spaced outstanding lugs 13. The lugs are three in number. The outer end of the shaft 11 passes through one side of the base 1 and has fixed thereon a key 14;

Straddling the sides of the outer and free end of the frame 7 and secured thereto by a pivot pin 15 there are the sides of a yoke shaped member 16. One of the sides 17 of the yoke has an arcuate slot 18 therethrough, struck concentric from its pivot 15. Passing through this slot there is the offset end 19 of a stop finger 20. The finger 20 is arranged between the frame 7 and the side 17 of the yoke 16 and the pivot 15 passes through the said finger. The outer end of the finger is ofiset so that the same can rest against the disc 12 and be in the path of contact with the lugs 13 on the said disc; The angle end 19 of the finger 20 is notched, and one of the edges of the side 17 of the yoke 16 is provided with an ear 21. Arranged around the pivot pin 15 there is the coiled portion of a spring 22,- the said spring having angle arms which exert a tension away from each other and one of these ends is received in a notch in the angle end 19 of the finger 20 and the other in the ear 21 of the yoke 16. The spring 22 normally forces the angle end 19 into contact with one of the end walls provided by the slot 18 but when the motor is wound by the turning of the shaft 11 the finger 20 will be successively contacted by the lugs 13 on the disc 12, without causing the finger to influence the yoke.

The rod or stafi6 passes through a bearing opening in the top of the base 1 and has its lower end journaled in an opening in an angle plate 23 which is secured in the base. On the vertical flange of the angle plate 23 there is fixed one end of an upstanding flat spring 24, .and also fixed on the said flange of the member 23 and arranged outward of the spring member 2a there is an upstanding bracket 25. The fiat spring 24: is

designed to engage the teeth of awheel- 26 whose hub is fixed on the rod or staff 6,

and construction and will afford both amuseand radiating from this hub to the periphcry of the wheel there are four equidistantly spaced spokes 27. The spring 24 is in the nature of a dog or detentto prevent the free turning of the rod or staff 6- in one direction. V

Pivotally secured on the upper corner of the side 17 of the yoke 16, there is an arm 28,- the said arm resting on the. top of the toothed wheel 16 and having on its outer end a depending tooth 29 arranged between the spokes 27 of the wheel 26. Pivotally connected to the second side of the yoke 16 there is a rod 30, and this rod is secured to the outer head 31 of a bellows 32. The second head of the bellows is supported on the bracket 25. In the bellows there is a wind whistle 33. The arm 3 of the figure 2,oppo site its pivot, has an offset portion or lug 34. This lug 34- is in the path of contact with one end of a curved lever 35. The pivot 36 for the lever 35 has secured thereon a plate 37 which is also connected to the pivot 38 for the arm 3. The end of the lever opposite the pivot 38 is widened and is slotted, as at 39 so that this end of the lever can swing through the pivot. 7 "he second and depending end of the lever 35 has at tached thereto a flexible element a0 and this element is guided through the top of the base 1 and is connected to the yoke 16.

When the spring 8 is wound and the stop or control. lever 10 is swung out of contact with the stop 9 for the train of gears-for the motor, the motor shaft 11 will revolve, causing the lugs 13 on the disc 12 to successively contact with the finger 20.v The finger being normally in locked engagement with the yoke 1 6'will cause the said yoke to swing with the movement of the, finger on the pivot 15, thus drawing on the; flexible element 40 to actuate the lever 35 which in turn swings the arm 3 ofv the figure 2. ln timed relation with the swinging of the'arm the dog 29 on the member 28 will be moved to engage one of the spokes 2? of the toothed wheel 26, turning the rod orstalf 6 one-fourth of a revolution so as to bring either of the signs 7 to display position. After the lug 13 passes off of, the finger 20 a spring 41, connected between the yoke and the frame 7 will return the yoke and finger to initial position. This swinging' of the yoke will compress the: bellows 32, ejecting air therefrom but first causing such air to pass through the whistle 33 to sound the same.

7 The improvement is of a simple nature ment and. instructions, inasmuch as the child operating the toy will be taught to observe signals. when passingstreet crossings.

Having described the invention, 1 claim 1. In a toy of the class described, a figure, an arm pivoted to the figure,a revoluble stop and go signal adjacent to the figure, a spring; actuated motor, stop. means for the motor, a vheel having spaced lugs operated by the motor, a finger in the path of contact with the lugs of the wheel, a swingable yoke to which the finger is pivoted, spring means for locking the finger on the yoke in one position, means actuated by the swinging of the yoke when influenced by the finger when the latter is engaged" by the lugs of the wheel for simultaneously imparting motion to the arm and to the stop signal, springtmeans influencing the yoke to initial position when the lugs have ridden off the finger and a combined buffer and whistle actuated by the return movement of the yoke.

2. Atoy for the purpose set forth, including a base having a figure thereon, an arm pivoted to the figure, a lug on. the arm, a pivoted lever on the figure having a notched end swingable over the pivot of. the arm and engageable with the, lugon the arm, a spring operated motor on the base, stop means for the motor, a lug carrying wheel on the motor shaft, a yoke pivot'ally secured on the motor frame, a. finger supported" on the pivotof the yoke and in the path of contact with the lugs on. the wheel', said finger having an offset end and the yoke having a slot to receive said end therein, spring means influencing said finger tobring the end thereof into engagement with one wall of the slot, a flexible element. connected to the lever on the figure and to the yoke, .astaff for the stop signal. journal'ed in the. base, a toothed wheel on the shaft havingspokes, a dog carrying member pivoted to the yokeand engageable with the spokes of the wheel, a spring detent for holding the wheel. from turning in one direction and awhistle carrying bellows inv the base, a link connection between the bellows andthe yoke and-a spring for influencing the yoke in one directioin In testimony whereof I affi'x my signature.

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